The power of the Blog, has it created....A MONSTER!?

Disclaimer : Chris is about to rant, his opinion isn't necessarily echoed by members of the whiteboydancefloor team.


Its a wicked double edged sword this blogging thing. A band like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! were justifiably lifted out of total obscurity into the limelight through blogs (albeit with a bit of hyperbole) and web zines. Yet now we are left with this.
http://www.myspace.com/arcticmonkeys
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17994304-2,00.html

Is this meant to be a joke? I mean, they are unorginal and untalented. Its all just rehashing old punk and rock drum beats, timing and chord progressions. There is nothing new, revelatory or fresh about what these poms are trying to pass off as music. Exuse the colloquialism, but they plain suck. 'Dont believe the hype' screams their MySpace headline. Is this an admission from the band themself that 'yes, we truly suck but people like us to be cool or whatever so were going with it'? Who knows, i dont care what they think, i just want them to shut up and die. Wow they talk about issues effecting British youth. If you want that, listen to The Smiths or a band who do it and are actually good. Your a hooligan and you want sympathy when a cop beats you up? I admire the cop, i wish he stepped on your trachea in the process Alex Turner so you couldnt 'sing', you git. I dont like to be told a new band is 'hip', and 'cool' and 'best band since such and such' when its a lie. Maybe i shouldn't be cranky at them. Its not their fault they suck and became famous. Its the bloggers, trying to be cool by saying this band is and in turn influenced the weak 'indie' kids to swallow them like a packet of rancid jawbreakers. Its the NME, the most buttfucked music magazine in the world who cream their pants at the sight of a band that hasn't been discovered yet. Who cares if they suck, they are young and 'retro-esque' so let's put them on the cover. And its the consumers, who are actually buying the album. Bollocks to them, they wished they looked good on the whiteboydancefloor but no, you've been ejected from the floor.